The Everpure vSphere plugin has the ability to recover a destroyed vVol within 24 hours of when the vVol was destroyed. There is also an integration to overwrite an existing vVol with a previous FlashArray snapshot of the vVol. These workflows are covered in the Demo Video here. Click to expand the workflows below.
Restoring a Destroyed vVol with the Everpure vSphere Plugin
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From the Virtual Machines Configure page, navigate to the Everpure - Virtual Volumes tab, select Restore Deleted Disk. When deleting a Data vVol, the FlashArray will destroy the volume and the volume will be in a Pending Eradication state for 24 hours. In this workflow example, the VM 405-Win-VM-2 has had the virtual disk "Hard disk 2" deleted from disk.
After selecting the Restory Deleted Disk option, any Data vVols that have been destroyed and are pending eradication will be displayed. Select the Data vVol that should be restored and click RESTORE to complete the workflow.
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After the workflow is complete, the recovered vVol will be displayed in the Everpure Virtual Volumes tab.
Rolling Back a vVol with the Everpure vSphere Plugin
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From the Virtual Machines Configure page, navigate to the Everpure - Virtual Volumes tab, select Overwrite Disk.
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From this page, select the vVol based VM and the Data vVol from that VM that you want to use to overwrite the Data vVol with. While this can be a different vVol VM or the same vVol VM that you want to import the data vVol to, the example show will be to roll back this Data vVol to a previous snapshot. Here Hard Disk 2 is selected and when expanded all Snapshots for that vVol are shown. In this case, the one selected in a Snapshot from the FlashArray pgroup "vSphere-Plugin-pgroup-2" and the Snapshot Name of "Safe-Snapshot".
In the Volume Information for the selected snapshot, we can see when the snapshot was created and the information for this vVol that will be used to Overwrite the Existing Data vVol. Click on Overwrite to complete the workflow.